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Council adopts interim zoning changes for auto-related uses, tables narrow Clingman Street CUP after neighbor objections
Summary
Council unanimously adopted a zoning text amendment requiring conditional use review for certain auto-related businesses as an interim measure; a conditional-use permit for a two-story house on a 50-foot Clingman Street lot was tabled after neighbors raised privacy, driveway and proximity-to-railroad concerns.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Hopewell city council approved a zoning text amendment that will require conditional-use permitting for certain auto-related uses in a range of commercial and industrial districts as an interim measure while the city rewrites its entire zoning ordinance.
Planning staff told council the change would affect permitted automobile and truck service, sales and rental uses in multiple districts…
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